Deepstriker fleet
Theme: Beachhead/Deepstriking/support fleet (basically a citadel for offensive purposes)
Flagship: Gyrn, the Voidhome
Fleet: combat engineers, drones (basic), tritium sniper frigate
Special--counts as a factory
***Having a dedicated support starter fleet designed to promote deepstriking seems quite desirable (so popular a strategy it has its own term). Gyrn is the clear choice for this concept. To make this work, it would either need to BE a factory or able to build them on non-player planets (I prefer the former)

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Also something that's necessary for rounding out the starter fleets - The parasite starter has almost zero offensive capabilities on its own.

Sure the botnet golem is amazing at applying zombification to incoming waves, making it deadly on the defense, but it really lacks when it comes to offense because the parasite fleet ships and botnet golem do so little damage. I think they need a ship that's tuned more towards doing damage in their fleet, but I wouldn't know what ship that is.

And it sounds like your Gyrn fleet would have the exact same issue, what happens if the fleet that spawns next to your homeworld isn't good enough? That sounds like a really bad time, having to sit back and build sniper frigates, enter the wormhole, do 10% damage to a guard post, and leave to rebuild the sniper frigates again.

The theme is more important to me than the actual fleet composition. I standby my position that both of the starterfleets embody the spirit of some core game play styles that need some love

*Hive golem might be better than my desire for a mini-devourer golem since it has metabolizing yellowjackets. Mini-devourer just sounds so cool =P
*Giving gyrn more "beachhead" flavored capacities--turrets, etc.--to help them make their initial push. As a drone producer in my current iteration, they aren't without combat means already. It shouldn't be too difficult to grab a nearby flagship in the beginning anyway

If you feel like experimenting around directly, it's super easy: [InstallFolder]\GameData\Configuration\FleetDesignTemplate\CMP_StartingFleetDesigns.xml

You can make your own xml file in there with your fleet designs so that it isn't getting overwritten by any changes we push via steam updates. If anyone wants to submit any xml updates to get the new fleets in there, and/or adjust existing ones, I'll be happy to integrate those.

So, this might be an interesting discussion to revisit as of the recent builds where there are now just generic transports as the central starter fleets. Golems and Arks are getting more powerful and being moved to the mid to late game only, no starters.

But also, we now have the starting battlestations and the starting support fleets, both of which are new since this report. So those kind of give you the ability to deepstrike or beachhead by combining things.

Metabolism isn't represented anywhere, and it's possible that the parasite fleet is still too weak on its own right now, but I think we have everything else covered via all the new mechanics that have come in. I welcome being told otherwise, though, so that we can rectify that. ;)

I would add only one Fleet so far: Consumer. Melee based, Gangsaws giving the Metabolism. Things like the Deepstrike Fleet are kind of represented. Don't want to add too many, since as you noted elsewhere before Chris, you can cause paralysis analysis with too many.